[MPlayer-users] Building mplayer from snapshot

Tue Dec 9 15:33:08 CET 2008

On Tuesday, 09 December 2008 at 10:41, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 07:54:57PM -0800, JD wrote:
> > $ rpm -qa | grep x264
> > x264-0.0.0-0.3.20070529.fc7
> > x264-devel-0.0.0-0.3.20070529.fc7
> 
> This is over a year old. That will work as well as a wooden wheel on a
> Porsche. MPlayer should work fine with even ancient system libraries,
> but for all the media libraries only the latest are supported, so if you
> want x264 support you'll probably have to build it yourself, too (unless
> you use a system that keeps more up-to-date like gentoo or possibly debian
> testing).

I've already told him to upgrade to a supported Fedora version. He's
running an insecure OS and outdated x264 snapshot is the least of his
problems.

Regards,
R.

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